I guess it was a cray-1, I did not ask.
ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1
He was researching ways to automate making single-threaded source code execute on multiple threads / multiple cores.
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I guess it was a cray-1, I did not ask. ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 He was researching ways to automate making single-threaded source code execute on multiple threads / multiple cores. 3 comments
@amirouche @nytpu I love the cray 1 for the sheer audacity to make a supercomputer that doubles as a sofa @cinebox @amirouche @nytpu And if you spell it out or sound it out, it's like a crayon. Cray One. Someone at Cray was having fun. |
@amirouche Eh, unless he worked for the (US) government it probably wasn't a Cray-1. AFAIK there was a ton of research into parallel computing at that time because of the success of the Cray supercomputers and just because it's easier to put a bunch of CPUs together than it is to make an individual CPU equivalently powerful